Problem Playing Authored/Burned Dvd on DVD Player

[djgazzabhoy]

Hello people . i ran into a small problem yesterday.

I made a 3 film dvd movie using hc encoder and avisynth scripts . encoding the movies from avi to m2v , i compiled them and burned them ect. and it played fine on ma 42inch tv via my xbox 360 , but when i took the dvd up to my smaller 22inch tv the menu was fine and stuff but when i clicked into the movies i would hear audio only but no video at all.

Here is the script i was using.


# -= AviSynth v2.5.7.0 script by FitCD v1.2.8 =-
AVISource("D:\WORKING FOLDER\x.avi")
Lanczos4Resize(720,576)
#Trim(0,194525).FadeOut(150)

And after it i got the m2v files i ran DGPulldown using 23.976 -> 25fps with all three movies.

Strange how it works fine on my 42inch tv via xbox but half works on my 22inch tv with built in dvd player?

Any help appreciated thanks!

[Baldrick]

Probably because pulldown from 23.976->25fps is not dvd compliant dvd.

DO you really have to convert them to PAL? Most dvd players/tv supports NTSC material.

[manono]

Probably because pulldown from 23.976->25fps is not dvd compliant dvd.

Sure it is. It'll output 25fps at playback time. Not that the unusual pulldown isn't the culprit, but I'd suspect something else first. He didn't say how he authored it or burned it.

I'd first suggest he take it to a friend's home and play it in a different DVD player to confirm the problem isn't with his player somehow.

[Baldrick]

OKey. Listen to manono instead.

What did you author it with?

[djgazzabhoy]

hello , sorry for the late reply! I use DVD-LAB to author the disc with a menu and the 3 films. Everything on the project is also set to PAL.

After that it was a little bigger than a DVD-5 so i used dvd shrink and created an iso file to burn it at 3x in imgburn.

When i first load each movie into dvd-lab it does not say the resolution is 720x576 , it shows 720x780 although i put resize 720x576 in the .avs script.

I need to use dvdpatcher to change the header to 720x576 so it will load each time in dvd-lab.

Hope that helps!

[Baldrick]

Hmm...the 720x780 doesn't sound good. What does mediainfo say about the m2v?

[djgazzabhoy]

heres info on one of the movies added.



Format : MPEG Video
Format_Version : Version 2
FileSize/String : 1.16 GiB
Duration/String : 1h 23mn
OverallBitRate_Mode/String : Variable
OverallBitRate/String : 2 002 Kbps

Video
Format : MPEG Video
Format_Version : Version 2
Format_Profile : Main@High 1440
Format_Settings_BVOP/String : Yes
Format_Settings_Matrix/String : Custom
Format_Settings_GOP : M=2, N=12
Duration/String : 1h 23mn
BitRate_Mode/String : Variable
BitRate/String : 1 916 Kbps
Width/String : 720 pixels
Height/String : 640 pixels
DisplayAspectRatio/String : 16:9
FrameRate/String : 24.000 fps
ColorSpace : YUV
ChromaSubsampling : 4:2:0
BitDepth/String : 8 bits
ScanType/String : Progressive
ScanOrder/String : 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3 Pulldown
Compression_Mode/String : Lossy
Bits-(Pixel*Frame) : 0.173
StreamSize/String : 1.11 GiB (96%)

[djgazzabhoy]

Says 24fps there when i clearly changed it from 23.976 -> 25 hehe weiiird!

[Baldrick]

Width/String : 720 pixels
Height/String : 640 pixels

Doesn't look right.

Is that your complete avisynth script?

Maybe you should try convert with a gui for hcenc like avstodvd.

[djgazzabhoy]

Yeah thats the complete avisynth script , fit cd makes it quite basic as i'm still new to the scripts but i thought a typicle 720,576 would resize it exactly to that so you reccomend avstodvd then yep? i will give it a go

[manono]

MediaInfo shows the pulldown correctly, so I wouldn't worry about the framerate. After all, 24p (or, more accurately, 23.976fps) is the right 'base' framerate, and these programs sometimes don't react normally in the presence of unusual pulldown. I don't know whether or not DVDLab had trouble with it, but don't think it would have authored it at all if it was out of spec. (720x640). So I suspect the resolution is also correct. You might open a VOB in DGIndex and see what it has to say about the resolution.

And again, test it out, if possible, in a different DVD player. It could just be that your player doesn't handle this pulldown correctly and you may wind up having to make an NTSC DVD as Baldrick suggested originally.